Issue 7 September 2007

WAIRARAPA MOANA

ISSUE SEVEN: TUAWHITU SEPTEMBER 2007

Extensive Background in the Health Sector Leads to PhD Janice Wenn is not one to run away from challenges and at age 74 has just completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in Maori studies, one of four PhDs among 600 graduates who proudly accepted their doctorates this year at Victoria University’s graduation ceremony.

Janice received her nursing training at the New Plymouth Hospital in Taranaki and while her children were young, she later returned to Wairarapa and worked during the school holidays in the Greytown Hospital.

IN THIS ISSUE: Wairarapa Moana Descendants Honoured Future Leaders Wananga Globe Trotting Titi New Wairarapa Moanatanga Fund Opens 1 November 2007 Annual General Meetings 2007 Pre-AGM Meetings Contribution to Community Tiki Tour Maori Trust Office – Unclaimed Monies Maori Showbands Exhibition Cancelled Wairarapa Moana Farms Update Shareholder/Beneficiary Search Shareholders – Bank/ IRD Details 50 Unclaimed Dividends

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Motivation for further education has always been strong for Janice and she recalls it all started in 1966 when she arrived back from Australia where she had gone to undertake midwifery training at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. This extra training enabled her to work with the Tasmanian Bush Nursing Service for seven years where her two children were born. On her return to New Zealand she decided to further her nursing career.

Says Janice: “Initially I took a position as a public health nurse and went to Featherston to work.

Frankly, once the children went to bed at night, there wasn’t a lot to do and as a result of this gap in my life I decided there and then that I should start some form of education. The outcome of this little bit of positive thinking resulted in an enrolment for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Massey University – it was as simple as that!”

Janice recalls that she went for the secure subjects initially, Education 1 and Psychology 1 and then

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got a bit brave and took on Philosophy. However, Philosophy proved unrewarding for her so she dropped this subject but went on to complete the rest of her degree through extramural study in 1973 while working as the Principal Nurse at Masterton Hospital.

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By this time, after her children had left home, a move to New Plymouth saw this hard working woman involved in a period of further serious study which resulted in a second qualification. All this while holding the post of Chief Nursing Officer of the Taranaki Hospital Board and later working in Midcentral Health in Palmerston North. Janice graduated with a Master of Nursing from Massey University in 1983.

That degree included papers in nursing theory and various aspects of community health nursing. Her MA thesis was on nursing information systems – a hospital viewpoint.

“This field of study also gave me an opening into the international world of nursing,” Janice says. “As a result of my Master’s qualification I travelled to Canada, Ireland and Australia, lecturing on information and nursing support systems and giving papers at International Nursing Information Conferences.

“Those were busy days, especially while I was studying,” she remembers. “I used to commute to Massey from New Plymouth on a Friday night so that I could attend lectures on the Saturday morning. I’d then drive back to New Plymouth next day to be ready for work on the Monday!”

And the PhD? – Janice admits to a change of direction in her academic thinking. “I actually decided to do my PhD in the area of Maori health. Over the years, through my rather

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extensive background in the health sector, I became very interested in such matters, especially as I had been part of the National Council of Maori Nurses as far back as the early 1970s. However, it was not till the 1990s that it occurred to me that I should do my PhD in a related area,” she says.

In 1990 Janice got as far as the enrolment process but because of her own personal workload and the rapid changes in the health services, plus the requirement for management involvement in these, she decided that these factors were reasons for not commencing her PhD study.

However, in the year 2000 after a return to Wairarapa to work, she made a very considered opinion to start on the next phase of her academic career. Conferring with experts at Massey University resulted in a desire to pinpoint the cultural values that underpin Maori health. It was agreed that this was something that could be developed into a PhD thesis. And Janice was more than qualified – she strongly identifies with the Wairarapa and her whakapapa is to Ngati Moe and Ngati Hinewaka.

Her Doctorate background research entailed interviewing people from the eight iwi of Taranaki and Ngati Kahungunu from Mahia in the north to Matakitaki in the south Wairarapa to produce a framework to be used in the design and quality assessment of health services.

Janice says being a second-time-around student did not particularly bother her two children when they were young, there were bonuses, they used to accompany her on her extramural courses which were held on the Massey University

Robert Kinsella (Kim) Workman, Ngati Kahungunu and Rangitaane, has been made a companion of the Queen’s Service Order (QSO), for services to prison welfare, in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Kim began his public service career as a police officer in 1959, where he served for sixteen years before working with the Office of the Ombudsman, the State Services Commission and the Department of Maori Affairs.

In 1993, he was appointed Deputy Director General (Maori Health) with the Ministry of Health.

Kim was appointed the Department of Justice penal institutions assistant secretary in 1992 and oversaw a major review of

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the prison service and is now the Board of Prison Fellowship executive director after being a board member for the past decade.

Kim retired in 1996 and began his own consultancy business, specialising in public policy advice, Maori and indigenous development and organisational development and change.

Kim has a BA (Sociology) degree from Massey University and is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate Business School.

We wish to congratulate James Rimene of Masterton who has been awarded the MNZOM for services to Maori and the community. An article to celebrate Uncle Jim’s award will be completed for the next edition of the Mailer.

Source: Wairarapa Times-Age 6 June 2007

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Jane Hopkirk was successful this year in completing her Post Graduate Diploma in Arts – Maori studies.

She works in Maori Mental Health sector and used her studies to learn about Maori development, Maori research and Maori mental health. Jane has also been successful, with the support of the Wairarapa Moana Trust, in gaining a Henry Rongomau Bennett Memorial Scholarship for Masters study later this year. The Memorial scholarship is very generous and specifically for those working or interested in mental health. Jane was the first Occupational Therapist to be awarded this scholarship.

Our congratulations to Jane.

campus. “I enjoyed the social aspects of this, as did the children, as we used to meet up with other parents involved with various courses, get together and plan out the day for our children,” she recalls. “We arranged daytime care on the campus. The children enjoyed this aspect of my student life and I think got quite used to me studying and sitting for exams – it was all part of their life. By the time I was preparing for my Masters they had grown and left home so it all fitted in perfectly well. Incidentally, neither of my two children have pursued an academic career, possibly they saw the study requirements in their true light!

“With my Doctorate study, however, there were a number of pressures, it seemed I was always going somewhere or doing something connected with my study so I admit at times I got quite stressed out. However, I was supported through these stresses by my supervisers who had always been available to me,” she says.

There’s no such thing as retirement in Janice’s life, after long years of intensive study she now has a number of interests that make demands on her time.

“I’m the chairperson of the Maori Relationship Committee to the Wairarapa DHB,” she says. “I also work with Maori providers helping to define the Kaupapa Maori roots – studying the requirements of what makes a good Maori health provider both here in Wairarapa, the Wellington region and Taranaki.”

And for good measure this amazing woman is also currently doing post doctoral research at Massey University to develop the findings of her thesis in order to create some quality measures for Kaupapa Hauora Maori Health Services.

Story Philippa Novak Also graduating at the Victoria University ceremony were Jack Morris and John Thoms, all of whom whakapapa to Wairarapa. Our congratulations to you all.

Future Leaders Wananga The Wairarapa Moana Trust and Incorporation have been working together to put a greater emphasis on identifying and developing our future leaders.

“Our educational scholarships have been renamed to reflect the sharper focus on our young people as our future leaders,” says Trust chairman, Nelson Rangi.

Rangi says under the current policies we hand out funding and hope that the young person will one day decide to find out about themselves and then decide to make contribution to their wider whanau, hapu and marae.

Changes to the policy mean that from next year you will only get your scholarship when you participate in a leadership development wananga.

Rangi says the leadership wananga will focus on general leadership skills but will also have a major emphasis on Wairarapa identity. Rangi says this year’s wananga will be supported from the Wairarapa Moanatanga budget.

He says the wananga participants will be educated about Wairarapa whakapapa, waiata, tikanga and history.

Kingi Smiler, Incorporation Chairman, says these young people are our future and they need to know who they are and also have the right leadership skills to manage our people and our assets in the world ahead. Smiler says the wananga programme will involve invited key speakers who are leaders in things like strategy, negotiation and presentation.

This year’s first leadership wananga will be held at Papawai Marae on 31 October to 1 November 2007. The participants will then travel by bus, on 2 November, to visit our farms at Mangakino and participate in this year’s Wairarapa Moana AGMs on 3 November.

What: Future Leaders Wananga When: 31 October – 1 November 2007 Where: Papawai Marae How to enrol: Contact Cheryl Wilmshurst, 06 370 2608 or 0800 662 624 Who: Wairarapa tangata whenua young people ideally between 15–25 years old (you do not have to be a scholarship recipient to participate) Places are limited to 40 – you will need to enrol quickly to ensure your place at the wananga.

Enrolments close Friday, 12 October 2007.

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Globe Trotting Titi Titi deserve a place in the Guinness Book of Records. They are truly amazing! Okay, you birders all knew that but the data now in from the data loggers attached to the legs of twenty-five motherbirds from Whenua Hou and eight from Mana Island (near Wellington) are incredible.

Titi have the longest animal migration ever recorded electronically, that’s a remarkable 64,000km (average) round trip around the Pacific Ocean. They were recorded diving repeatedly to an average of about 14 metres but reaching 68 metres. They travelled up to 1,000 km a day (the equivalent of 41 km/hour if they went in a straight line but really they must have wandered off line and done spurts at much faster speeds).

What was different about this research was that we used a new generation of small electronic data loggers that record lots of information about titi behaviour while they are ranging far away from New Zealand. Locations are established using light levels measured by the tag to determine the time of sunrise, sunset and local noon. By comparing the time of local noon to that of noon Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the tag can establish a bird’s longitude.

Latitude is calculated by determining the length of day between sunrise and sunset at the measured longitude.

Knowing the longitude and latitude it is possible to estimate the location on a globe.

So, where did they go? As you can see from the diagrams, the birds performed an amazing figure eight pattern around the entire Pacific Ocean, with latitudinal coverage from Antarctic waters to the Bering Sea and longitudinal coverage ranging from Chile to Japan. This amazing series of tracks confirms theories first proposed in 1972 by a Russian Seabird ecologist, V. P. Shuntov, about the direction and pattern of titi migration. At the start of migration in early April, titi travelled in the direction of prevailing westerly winds (up to 695 km in a day). Once birds began heading north, they appeared to use easterly trade winds to travel northwest across the Pacific stopping little, if at all, to feed along the way. The highest transit rates we recorded were achieved during this period of up to 1,096 km in a day.

Upon arrival into cool oceanic waters above 30°N, birds travelled to one of three wintering grounds in the North Pacific: (i) the Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents region off

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Migration routes of titi flying to the North Pacific and back in 2005 and 2006. Each colour is the path of an individual bird. The areas the tracks are very dense and change direction a lot are where the birds spent time feeding, while the straighter sections are where they passed through quickly.

Japan and Kamchatka Peninsula, (ii) the eastern Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska region, or (iii) the Eastern North Pacific off the entire west coast of the US and Baja, Mexico.

The timing of their arrival on the wintering grounds (April 20 – May 17) occurs when oceanic productivity in the North Pacific exceeds that found in the South Pacific. The North Pacific wintering grounds are biologically productive because of oceanic processes that promote primary and secondary production, attracting fish, squid and krill, which are consumed by titi in large numbers. On the wintering grounds, transit rates were only 257 km a day as birds routinely dived for food and movements were confined to discrete regions of the North Pacific with no movement between regions.

The figure-eight pattern is completed when birds return to New Zealand waters in a southwesterly direction in a period of about fifteen days, at speeds of up to 971 km a day.

This research has proven very valuable to the Titi team, it has shown the capacity of titi to fly and integrate resources over the entire Pacific Ocean. It implies that titi may serve as a sensitive species to monitor the impacts of global climate change and the health of oceanic ecosystems. Importantly, climate change may impact titi populations if warming trends influence major ecosystem dynamics of the North Pacific.

If there is falling ocean productivity, birds returning to New Zealand colonies may be in poor condition to breed, or may not return at all. The tracks of the birds have also highlighted regions where interactions with fisheries pose a significant risk, as birds are caught as bycatch in several driftnet fisheries in the western North Pacific.

We were so encouraged by these results that we redeployed fourteen data loggers in December 2005, nine of which we recovered earlier this breeding season. Analysing these latest data is ongoing but has already offered up a few surprises (see Argentinian coast route photo).

By splicing together the pieces of this rather big and intricate jigsaw puzzle we can build the picture and help keep the titi forever.

Titi Migration Facts From The First Season • The migration routes of 19 titi were tracked in the first season, for an average of 262 days.

• The Pacific Ocean migration cycle lasted an average of 198 days.

• These migration routes (64,037 ± 9,779 km long excluding the breeding period) represent the longest recorded of any animal tracked to date.

• Maximum daily distance covered was 1,096 km.

• Individuals from three breeding pairs travelled to either different or similar regions of the North Pacific, suggesting that titi are not geographically constrained.

• No titi moved between ‘over-wintering’ regions.

• Titi from both our study populations, separated by 850 km, overlapped completely within their distributions in both the South and North Pacific Oceans.

• Four birds also travelled to the coast of Chile, where a sizeable population of titi breed, before migrating northward.

• One bird that was tagged in Jan 2005 was recaptured in Nov 2006. This bird did not breed after its first migration but it did complete two migrations to the same oceanic region off Japan. Thus, this single bird really holds the record because we tracked its entire migration over two seasons.

The research team comprised Dr Scott Shaffer, Henri Weimerskirch, Darren Scott and Dr Henrik Moller.

Source: This article has been published courtesy of Dr Henrik Moller, University of Otago, taken from the Titi Times, Number 19, May 2007.

One of the surprising results from the 2006 tracking was the remarkable path of one of the birds. After leaving New Zealand waters it rounded Cape Horn and entered the Atlantic (the only bird to do so), spending time feeding along much of the Argentinian coast. Most surprisingly though was that this individual ended up being caught by an Argentinian fisherman’s trawl net.

Fortunately, the fisherman had the presence of mind to return the tag to Dr Scott Shaffer in the USA.

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New Wairarapa Moanatanga Fund opens 1 November The Wairarapa Moana Trust is seeking applications from shareholders and whanau for initiatives that will support our development as a people. A contestable fund of up to $30,000 will be launched on 1 November 2007.

“The purpose of the fund is to assist whanau to know who we are, where we come from and what it means to be a descendant of Wairarapa Moana,” says Nelson Rangi, Chair of the Wairarapa Moana Trust.

“This is a first for the Wairarapa Moana Trust, and we are pleased to be able to provide support for whanau initiatives in this area.”

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2007 Annual General Meetings WAIRARAPA MOANA INCORPORATION WAIRARAPA MOANA TRUST

AGENDA November 2nd 2007 (Friday) Mokai Marae, Tirohanga Road, Mokai, Taupo Powhiri (Buses arriving)

5.30pm

Registration

7.00pm

November 3rd 2007 (Saturday) Mangakino Area School, Karamu Street, Mangakino

The fund has the following objectives:

1. Registration recommences

7.00am – 2.00pm

1. to assist whanau to be capable, confident and strong within their own identity, culture and heritage as descendants of the original rangatira of the hapu and whanau of the lake area;

2. Wairarapa Moana Incorporation AGM

7.30am – 12.00pm

3. Farm Visit

7.30am – 12.00pm

2. t o a s s i s t w h a n a u t o b e knowledgeable about what it means to come from Wairarapa and Wairarapa Moana;

6. Wairarapa Moana Trust AGM

1.45pm – 3.00pm

7. Wairarapa Moana Inc AGM (Resumed) Business includes Dividend Approval

3.00pm – 4.00pm

4. Arrive back at Mangakino Area School 5. Lunch

12.15pm 12.30pm – 1.45pm

3. to make a contribution to revival of our waiata and tikanga; 4. to help create depth in our paepae across our marae; and 5. t o s t r e n g t h e n connections.

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Projects will be supported which primarily contribute to the above objectives.

For an Information Sheet and Application Form contact the Wairarapa Moana Trust on 0800 662 624 or email moanatrust@xtra.co.nz Applications close 5pm 15 February 2008.

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Information Regarding Annual General Meetings Attendance, Travel and Accommodation Form If you will be attending the AGM, please return the attendance form so the appropriate arrangements can be made for transport, accommodation, and catering.

This form must be completed and returned by everyone, including shareholders living in Mangakino.

Please bring with you to the AGM your copy of the 2007 Annual Report and the 2007 Notices of Annual General Meetings.

2007 Pre-AGM Meetings WAIRARAPA MOANA INCORPORATION WAIRARAPA MOANA TRUST VENUE

DATE / TIME

Contribution to Community

ROTORUA Mansfield Room, Novotel Lakeside, Tutanekai Street, Rotorua

Saturday 6 October 10.30am – 12.30pm

HASTINGS Omahu Marae, Koropiko Rd, State Highway 50, Fernhill, Hastings

Saturday 6 October 12 noon – 2.00pm

MASTERTON Solway 1, Copthorne Solway Park, High Street, Masterton

Sunday 7 October 12 noon – 2.00pm

The Wairarapa Moana Trust has been pleased to provide support to the following:

CHRISTCHURCH Buick Room, Copthorne Hotel Durham St Cnr Durham & Kilmore Streets, Christchurch

Sunday 7 October 11.00am – 1.00pm

• Wairarapa Kaumatua Charitable Trust Funding to provide a dress polo shirt for kaumatua participating in the hikoi to Tauranga/ Waiheke Island/Taupo.

WELLINGTON Chancellor 4, James Cook Hotel 147 The Terrace, Wellington AUCKLAND Conference Centre, Ellerslie International Motor Inn, 2 Wilkinson Road, Ellerslie, Auckland GISBORNE Gisborne Hotel, Cnr Tyndal & Huxley Roads, Gisborne

Saturday 13 October 1.30pm – 3.30pm

In addition to providing educational scholarships and marae development grants the Trust during 2006/07 had a small putea of funding available for applications from individuals or groups.

$1,285.00 Sunday 14 October 10.00am – 12.00pm

Sunday 14 October 10.00am – 12.00pm

• Te Puke ki Hikurangi Committee Sponsorship of calendar featuring information and photographs from Papawai kapa haka roopu performance at Rangitane Kapa Haka festival. $480.00

Information Regarding Pre-AGM Meetings

• Kim Workman Funding to support Wiremu Workman to attend an Outward Bound Course. $500.00

The business of the Pre-AGM is to review the 2007 Annual Reports and update shareholders and whanau on the Wairarapa Moana activities.

If you would like to attend any of the pre-AGM meetings, please call Cheryl at the office on 0800 662 624 and let her know the numbers attending so catering can be arranged.

If you go on to the voice mail, please leave the details of the venue, numbers attending and a contact phone number.

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Tiki Tour My Travels Around The World As A Musician With The Maori Hi-Liners Show Band by Kelly Haeata.

I am the son of Te Rito Tuahine Haeata Kuku and Te Waiorirangi Te Whaiti and was given the name Keremeneta. Up until the age of six years my family lived on the Marae called the Hiona Pa along with uncle Jack and aunty Maggie, uncle Boonie, aunty Snowy, uncle Tom and aunty Daisy, uncle Mita, aunty Kuini and all their whanau.

We were a very close family which I can say to this day remains. I can still vividly remember some of the waiata that our parents and older members of the families used to sing and perform at many of our communal gatherings. “E pare ra, He puri tai tama e, He puti karihana e” and many others.

My dad was very talented musically and played the mandolin, violin and piano accordion. He could also hold his own in singing and was a member of the family band and played dance music around the rohe. My mother also had a lovely voice but was not part of the band, she had to look after all us kids! I inherited my talents from my parents. So, as I take you on my musical journey I pay tribute to my family who played an important part in my musical career.

I became a member of the Maori Hi-Liners Show Band in the mid-60s and associated with some of the great showbands of that era, namely the Maori Hi-Five, Maori Hi-Quins, Maori Castaways, Maori Volcanics and the Quin Tikis. I played rhythm guitar and will pay tribute to “Red” Kerehi and my cousin, Nahu Haeata, from whom I gained a lot of knowledge as a guitarist.

Red and Nahu were both good guitarists in their own right and played a lot at family gatherings, parties etc. and I used to go along just to watch them play and to my recollection Red was the first guitarist to have a ‘double necked guitar’ in the Wairarapa. Red was from Levin and married my cousin Hiona “Noni”.

I left Masterton in the early 50s working in Mangakino milking cows as a cowboy with my brother Tom on his No 11 Farm on Mitchells Road. I also come from a shearing family as my dad was a ‘gun’ shearer in Wairarapa and ran shearing gangs and taught me the art of shearing. I was to become a shearer, with my uncle Joe “Toot” Te Whaiti who ran the shearing gang in Mangakino, and shore 134 on my first day in which I had to ‘shout’ a 10-gallon cream can of beer!

I moved on to Taupo working on the geothermal steam project at Wairakei, then joined the army, serving three years with the armed forces in Malaya, 1961-63. On retiring from the army

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I went to Sydney to be the ‘best man’ at my brother Robert’s wedding and met Barry Erickson who was involved in a lot of entertainment performing at nightclubs and RSLs. It was at one of the nightclubs called the Tiki Village in Kings Cross that I met Wi Wharekura and Noel King from the Howard Morrison Quartet but had since disbanded. We went to the club to support Eddie Low and John Rowles who were just starting out in show business and it was at the Rex Hotel that I was to meet the incomparable Prince Tui Teka, who had his own group at the time “The Troubadours”. I was to become involved with Tui as an entertainer in later times in the show business in England and Europe.

It was the first week of November, 1965, when the ‘Maori HiLiners’ boarded the Patrese. The group comprised Barry Erickson from Taupo on drums and vocal, Kelly Haeata from Masterton on rhythm guitar and vocal, Robbie Williams from Auckland on lead guitar and vocal and Brian, an Aussie, on bass. Barry, being in show biz for a number of years, managed to ‘seal the deal’ for us to entertain on the ship and earn a ‘free passage’ to Greece. The trip took roughly six weeks and we practiced new songs to become more professional in our performance, doing an afternoon show as well as an evening dance and show.

The passengers were mainly Greek families returning to their homeland for Christmas with sprinklings of Aussies, Pommies

and Americans. The Captain thought we were pretty good and he invited us twice to dine at the ‘Captain’s table’ which was a privilege during our voyage and at the completion of the trip he gave us a ‘high recommendation’ to work on any shipping liners as entertainers. We sailed the Indian Ocean up to Colombo (Sri Lanka), spent a day there sight-seeing while the ship took on more stores and water etc. That night we set sail for Aden and it was during this part of the voyage that the Purser in charge of entertainment approached Barry to see if we could come up with any new ideas. It was suggested that everyone could become involved with a Hawaiian/ Polynesian night with passengers making their own hula skirts and leis out of crepe paper and dress up any fashion to have a ‘ball’ and plenty of fun. Well, this went off with great success and everyone had the time of their life, even the elderly staunch Greeks!!

We arrived in Aden to replenish supplies then up onto the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal and three days later arrived in Athens.

We spent six weeks sight-seeing and working at local nightclubs and gaining quite a reputation as the “Meeoowry” (Maori) group. We rented one of the many flats owned by the Mayor of Athens and we cooked up many ‘boil ups’ mutton or beef bones with puha! Yep, that’s right, we found puha on empty section lots or on private home frontages (typical Maori eh!).

On the ship we learned enough of the Greek language to get by and this was a big test for us in the mainstream Greek population to enhance their customs and we were treated with great respect. During that era the film ‘Zorba The Greek’ was on show and the music from that film was played on a ten-stringed Greek instrument called a ‘bazooka’ similar to an over-sized Hawaiian ukulele. Robbie and I practiced the tunes on our guitars and the Greek people were amazed of our professionalism and performance as they had never seen it done on guitars. Also, our Maori kapa haka and Polynesian

dances were well received. Although the money wasn’t that flash it paid for rent and food.

We wanted to go to a more-English speaking country and decided to travel by train to England, getting a travel pass through the Greek Consulate. It took about five days, travelling night and day, going through ‘border control’ into Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany and Belgium.

From there we boarded the ferry in Ostende and over to Dover, England. “Yippee!!!” people speaking English. “Wow!!!” it was music to our ears. We boarded another train that took us into London, arriving at the OVC (Overseas Visitors Club) where people from all walks of life gathered and mingled, just to catch up with friends, also where groups of entertainers gathered.

We met up with the Maori Quin Tikis that had been performing at the club and they helped get us into a ‘flat’ at the same place they were at and also put in a good word to perform at the club. We performed our ‘cabaret’ show twice a week, enough to pay the rent and a feed and that was it! Things were getting desperate and we had to find means of getting extra cash. The manager of the club got us a day job working at the brewery packing cases of wine and spirits for delivery and the four of us pooled our money and made things stretch. We desperately wanted to do more cabaret work but not having a manager to manage and promote us was becoming quite frustrating and so we decided that England wasn’t going to be ‘our cup of tea’ and we made arrangements with the Shaw Savill shipping line to return to Aotearoa on the Southern Cross. However, it was during our last performance at the club that a gentleman by the name of Derek Rawdon happened to be searching for ‘overseas talent’, liked our show and wanted to take us there-and-then to perform in the Manchester nightclubs in the Midlands. If only he had been there a week earlier to see us perform but we were contracted with the shipping company.

However, Derek wanted to manage us upon our return. It was about March, 1967, we boarded the Southern Cross in Brighton, South England and set sail for Aotearoa knowing that on our return to England we would be under management and be able to follow our dreams.

The voyage took about six weeks travelling through the Panama Canal, onto the Pacific Ocean calling into Tahiti, Fiji and ‘windy’ Wellington.

We were a big hit on the ship with the passengers and especially with Captain Moulder, who incidentally was a New Zealander and who was to give us a ‘high recommend’ to travel on any Shaw Savill liner.

This was to become our passage back to England.

To be continued …

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Māori Trust Office Te Kai-Tiaki Māori

MAORI SHOWBANDS EXHIBITION CANCELLED Further to the article featured in the Mailer in September 2006, a planned exhibition focusing on Kahungunu connections to Maori showbands has been cancelled.

Napier researcher, Neill Gordon, said that there had been major restructuring of the Hawke’s Bay Cultural Trust and ongoing uncertainty over the Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre in Hastings, where the showbands exhibition was to have opened in October.

“There are still many people who believe this exhibition should happen but at the moment there is no sign of when that might be,” Neill said.

“As anyone who knows a little bit about the Maori showbands is aware, there is a fascinating and inspiring story to be told there, so I hope there will be new life breathed back into this exhibition before too long.”

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You may be one of the claimants to more than eight million dollars of Maori land money currently held by the Maori Trustee. The Maori Trustee is seeking to pay out unclaimed money to Maori landowners.

In order for the Maori Trustee to best fulfil his responsibilities, he needs the ability to contact owners so he can: • Consult with owners regarding the management of the land; and • Pay out any funds that are due to clients There are a number of reasons for the inability to pay, these include: • The client is deceased and has yet to be succeeded to through the Maori Land Court • The client has changed address or bank account and has not notified the Maori Trust Office

• When the client became an owner, generally through succession, their address was unknown to the applicant or not noted by the Maori Land Court Nationally there are thousands of clients for whom the Maori Trustee is holding funds, including a number who are known to be deceased but who have not yet been succeeded to through the Maori Land Court.

Here is a selection of those with larger balances from the Takitimu region:

Account

Name

Balance

Main Source

1504090

Tamahine Hame (aka Tamahine Whakatangi)

$17,479.64

Rakautatahi 2B2

1504761

Haromi Ruta

$15,139.33

Rakautatahi 2B2

1512482

Manga Renata Brown

$14,080.02

Gethsemane Reserve No 3

1506702

Tamati Tuhinga

$13,886.51

Mangaorapa 2B1B

1515031

Te Okeroa Hone

$13,215.32

Pukahu 33B

1518517

Ohipera Kihirini (aka Ohipera Hape)

$12,240.56

Mangatoro 1A3C6

1516311

Marianne Baby Heketa

$10,155.88

Rakautatahi 2B2

1504079

Te Rangihiroa Renata

$8,557.43

Rakautatahi 2B2

1524933

Norman Andrew Jackson Mackie

$6,854.58

Pahaoa 3B2

1507939

Heperi Poutawa

$4,353.80

Mangatainoka 1BC 2B 3

1502317

Raima Moss (aka Raima Potangaroa aka Raima McDonald)

$3,176.97

Te Ore Ore 2A

1520152

Nenewaiterangi Te Atua

$2,711.18

Rakautatahi 2B2

1501922

Raihania Timu

$2,677.65

Otawhao A9 No 2A

1523007

Roberta Archibald

$2,656.49

Pekapeka 2B4A

1518512

Rita Atarita Epps

$2,416.66

1520829

Christopher James Chapman

$2,249.23

Patangata 3B2B

1502248

Mary Te Huinga Potangaroa (aka Mary Te Huinga Thompson)

$2,177.57

Otawhao A92B

1523699

Haerepo Thompson

$2,130.56

Otawhao A92B

1519583

John Philip Neville

$2,032.39

Tutaekara Section 115 Lot 10

Please contact your local Maori Trust Office if you recognise any of the above names, or view the following link for a list of large balances held by the Maori Trustee – http://www.tpk.govt.nz/about/structure/mto/unclaimed_moneys.asp

Wairarapa Moana Farms Update Since the last farm update the business of dairy farming has been in the media spotlight for a whole range of different reasons.

On our farms the 2007 year closed with a record production of 2.48 million kg/ms and as an added bonus the final dairy payout recently announced by Fonterra was $4.46 kg/ms up 11 cents on the forecast in February.

area and this will now include a small part of the sheep and beef farm creating two more dairy units which will be named Farm 12 and Farm 14. These will start in June 2008.

On the owner/operator farms, of which there are now five, we have a whole new team of managers and staff.

When these projects are completed there will be approximately 5,000 cows in the owner/operator model.

I am pleased to report that they are all highly experienced with the right attitude, commitment and enthusiasm to run a successful dairy farm business.

Already a number of activities around planning for more staff, the infrastructure required on the new farms, and engagement of contractors is well underway.

The sharemilking team has again performed well throughout the season and all look forward to the start of the 2008 year.

In addition to all of this the management team has been reviewing the opportunity of converting some of the easier contoured land presently in trees for the purpose of livestock farming.

The capital development programme has gone well despite some delays with the new rotary cowshed which I hope will be operational within the next few weeks.

On farm we are still able to milk the cows through the existing sheds and the farm staff are working well as a team during this time.

In early May Fonterra signalled an extremely positive outlook in the dairy international marketplace and forecasted a milk payout of $5.53 kg/ms which includes 20 cents for the value added component.

In the growth plan for the dairy business it has always been the intention to further develop some of the existing dairy

This project is a new and exciting opportunity for the greater farming business which will provide long-term sustainable benefits for all shareholders.

It is my view that in a global sense the world is now focussed on food, fuel and energy. This presents opportunities for all farmers in the longer term.

Your management team looks forward to providing further updates on the above at the November AGM. J Hall Dairy Farm Supervisor

Shareholder/Beneficiary Search The Incorporation is seeking the addresses of the following shareholders or trustees as mail has been returned to the office.

If you are able to provide any relevant information or contact details, please call Ngaere Webb on 06 3702608 or 0800 662 624.

6392 6916 5490 4393 4739 5781 5152

Hukarere Irihapeti Zeana Rongonui Waka Wharepapa Henare Rana Beverley Gillies Matthew Edward Chase Peter Johnson Cowan Phillip Tama Parahi Samuel John H R Te Tau Estate

5754 6820 4715 6831 5984 6793 3402

Raewyn Himona Adrienne Denise Hesketh Patricia Rose Blair Harold Whetu Waaka Madge Thorby Frank Morris Ahipene Alexander Pratt

Shareholders are to be congratulated on their detection skills! Of the twenty names published in the last edition of the Mailer (in the Shareholder/Beneficiary Search article), the office has now made contact with thirteen of these shareholders/descendants.

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Shareholder Bank Account Details Payment of dividends to shareholders resident in New Zealand is now made by way of Direct Credit to shareholders bank accounts only. Cheques are no longer sent out to shareholders resident in New Zealand. This is the current policy of the Incorporation.

Shareholders residing overseas will continue to be paid by cheque. If, however, the shareholder living overseas holds a bank account in New Zealand you may elect to have your dividend paid into this account.

The office does not accept bank account numbers over the phone. This is because bank account details are required to be verified by the bank.

Please be reminded that if you are required to provide new bank account details because you have changed your banking facility or your account has been closed, please call the office to request a bank account form.

Please contact Ngaere Webb on 06 3702608 or 0800 662 624 with any inquiries.

New Zealand IRD Number If we hold your IRD number you will pay 19.5% in dividend tax. If we do not hold your IRD number your dividend will be taxed at the rate of 39%.

Shareholders – you will only receive the lower rate of taxation if you have provided the Incorporation with your New Zealand Inland Revenue Department number.

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50 Unclaimed Dividends The following is a random selection of Unclaimed Dividends that are held in the office. If you are able to provide any information that may enable the office to make contact with these shareholders or their descendants please contact Ngaere Webb on 06 3702608 or 0800 662 624.

HENARE MAAKA II ERENA HAPUKU WARIHI REWI KERENENE TAURAU HANA TAURAU RIHIPETI BESSIE ENOKA TE NOHO TE NOHO MADELINE POTANGAROA HAKARAIA TAMATI ELEANOR PENE WARREN HOKO TOKI PAORA MARAMA HOKO PAORA TOKI ALBERT MANIHERA DUDER WARIHI REWI MARGARET PAKI HINEPATOKARIKI TAMIHANA TIKI KOPU WINNIEATA TAYLOR GERTRUDE ANNE HIMONA KAURIKIRANGI AKUHATA HIWA WAIKARI EHETERE PAEA MAXINE RODNEY WILSON MATINA RUTA MARAKAIA HOROMONA

TE RIMU HIMIONA HARATIERA TE RANGIKAPUROTO ROPHIA MITAI WAAKA CHARLES THOMS HONE NGATA TE UA HAMUERA KARYN KATIE ARAITI BARBARA IVY MANIHERA KATERINA MITAI WAAKA DONALD ANDREW POLLETT EARL CHRISTOPHER POLLETT ORIWIA SIMEON KAWAURUKUROA HANITA PAKI MARTHA LINKHORN JAMES MAKIURUHAU WAIPUKA JIM KOHINGATANGA MANIHERA PARAMENA HENARE MAAKA ESTATE BARBARA TAPITA ADAMS HOANI WAAKA KATHLEEN GEDDES VERNON THOMPSON LORETTA ROSE THOMPSON JOHN RANGI THOMPSON GEORGE KOMENE EDWARD HENRY LUCAS-TIPENE

We are always interested in talking to you about news for the Mailer.

Please let us know if you would like to contribute an article or panui or if you would like us to interview someone for future editions.

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Closing Dates for Articles for the Mailer Closing Dates Friday, November 16, 2007 Friday, February 22, 2008

Distribution Dates Saturday, December 15, 2007 Saturday, March 22, 2008

Please call Ngaere Webb on 06 3702608 or 0800 662 624 with any inquiries.

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